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Brain Scans Show Smokers' Clouded Judgment Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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A defining feature of smoking addiction is that smokers pursue their habit even when it's clear they are forgoing other benefits, such as good health. Now brain scans suggest that this dodgy decision-making may extend into other areas of their lives. Research made at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, studied 31 chronic smokers and 31 non-smokers as they played a game inside an fMRI scanner. (source: newscientist.com)
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